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MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - League CEO, Catherine Masters, wanted a small piece of exercise equipment and already had a stepper and a treadmill. After searching the net, she found the POWER VIBE. Then, as if the Universe was watching, that night on the national news, she saw a story about the benefits of "vibration therapy". The story talked about how many pro football teams were using "vibration therapy" and how it was helping the athletic and medical communities in all kinds of ways. So, she bought one and has been thrilled with it. After talking with the company about the machine, the distributor decided to take a small sponsorship with the league.

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL NAMES CHRISTY VELEZ
AS WEBMASTER

The National Women's Football Association has announced the hiring of Christy Velez as the league's webmaster.

Velez has extensive experience in website design and maintenance and will handle all modifications and maintenance of the league's global website. "We're very happy to have Christy join us and feel that with her help, our website will continue to evolve and become all that we think it can be," states league VP, Debby Lening.

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL PLAYER EARNS SPOT IN THE ARNOLD CLASSIC

Sarah Sharpe, who plays defensive back, wide receiver and is a founding partner in the Treetown Spitfire, one of the 40 teams in the National Women's Football Association, has earned a spot in the Arnold Classic Sports Festival. Sharpe will compete in the first ever Amateur Figure competition on March 2, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio. The Arnold Classic, named after California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the largest stage in body building and figure sports.

“The Arnold Sports Festival is founded on the competitive spirit of bodybuilding and has grown to become the top destination for fitness, figure, and bodybuilding athletes,” said Bob Lorimer, the amateur event CO-promoter with the Fitness Factory’s Mike Davies.

This two-day event will showcase the aspiring talents of top male and female competitors from across the United States vying for top amateur status in men’s and women’s bodybuilding, and women’s fitness and figure. Among the largest athletic events outside of the Olympics, the weekend activities will also feature sports like powerlifting, Karate, and gymnastics.

“Obviously I'm very happy for Sarah and proud of the effort she put into this accomplishment," says team majority partner, Val Sharpe. “What’s really cool is that she shares with her teammates and coaches the training methods and techniques that have suited her so well. The ladies have been quite receptive – and, after seeing Sarah, who can argue with the results?”

Sharpe earned her spot in the Arnold Classic by placing 4th in the Excalibur Figure Championships in Culver City, CA on December 2, 2006. She works ten to twelve hours a day as an Executive Mortgage Banker with Quicken Loans, manages to squeeze in a couple hours of training, and still keeps pace with her football responsibilities.

East TN Rhythm Unveil new website

The East TN Rhythm (Bristol), has announced the new look of their website etrhythm.com

The East TN Rhythm are an expansion team for the 2007 season.

NASHVILLE DREAM STARTS 2007 SEASON

The Nashville Dream Women's Professional Football season practice has started. The Nashville Dream are proud members of the National Women's Football Association.

Head Coach Ben Eakin stated, "We definitely have a lot of athletic talent this season, we also have a lot of work to do, but it will all come together by our first season game on April 21st when we travel to Chattanooga against the Locomotion.  I have no doubts that we have a winning season for the Nashville Dream.  We have added several coaches to our staff that are highly qualified for the jobs assigned.  I hope everyone will come out and support the "Dream" this season.  I believe if you love to watch football, you will love watching these women play!"

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL INKS DEAL WITH INDIETV.tv

The National Women's Football Association, the premiere tackle football league for women, has announced the signing of an exclusive deal with indieTV.tv.

The deal allows the NWFA to broadcast team and league videos on the website and is exclusive in nature. Only videos from the NWFA will be posted on this site. "This is a great opportunity for the NWFA to showcase the league and it's teams. We've got some really great videos and have received over 2,500 hits in less than a week," states league CEO, Catherine Masters.

indieTV.tv is a Seattle, Washington based website, run by volunteer indie filmmakers, for indie filmmakers, and it's all free. indieTV.tv seeks out the top indie filmmakers on the Internet, and brings them to a wider audience. indieTV.tv has Filmmakers from the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, and Australia -- indieTV.tv has viewers in 130 countries worldwide.

indieTV.tv aims to bring together indie filmmakers around the world, and harness that power to help advertisers give back to the Filmmakers of indieTV.tv (*Filmmovment.com and letstalk.com have been chosen featured sponsors -- indieTV.tv also has an agreement with Revver -- the video sharing website that gives 50% of advertising dollars to filmmakers). On indieTV.tv, you can find some of the best independent digital, television and film shorts around.

To view videos on indieTV, please visit indietv.tv/nwfa

AV ATTACK TO BE FEATURED
ON SPIKE TV!

The AV attack provided some players and definitely some excitement for an upcoming show on the Wild World Of Spike. The AV Attack players that participated were Sarah Adams, Alicia Freeman and Jennifer Hollingsworth. Times and dates of the broadcast will be soon so please check our website avattack.com

VENUEQUEST NAMED OFFICIAL DESTINATION COMPANY FOR WOMEN'S FOOTBALL

The National Women's Football Association, the premiere women's football league, has announced that VenueQuest has been named the official destination company for the league.

VenueQuest Meeting &Destination Specialists, is a professional meeting, planning and hotel site selection company that has been in business since 2003. VenueQuest books hotel accommodations for groups with 10 or more guest rooms per night. There is no cost for their clients to use VenueQuest's hotel site selection services since the company receives a commission on the rooms they book.



"We are pleased to be working with VenueQuest and feel that this will be a huge help to all of our teams that need hotel rooms," states Debby Lening, Vice President of the league.

ICKEY WOODS SEEKS GENERAL MANAGER AND MEDIA DIRECTOR FOR WOMEN'S FOOTBALL TEAM

Former Cincinnati Bengal star, Ickey Woods has announced that he is seeking a General Manager for his women's football team, the Cincinnati Sizzle.

"We've got a great team of top athletes and feel confident that this will be one of our best seasons ever. However, it's been difficult for me to try to run the front office, bring in sponsors and coach the team. Therefore, I am looking for someone with sales experience and good management credentials to help us take our team to the next level," sates Woods.  Woods is also looking for a Media Director. "We get a lot of media attention both locally and nationally and we need someone to help us not only with coordinating those areas but to help us write and distribute press releases about our team and its players and coaches," adds Woods. Interested individuals should call Woods at (513) 236-2886.

Woods, who is well known for his famous, Ickey shuffle, has been the owner of the team since it joined the league. "We love having Ickey as one of our owners and know that if he can bring in the right people to assist him, his team will be one of the best in the league on and off the field," states league VP, Debby Lening.

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL HUGE HIT
ON GOOGLE!

Whoever said women's tackle football wouldn't draw an audience hasn't been on the Google video site. Since the National Women's Football Association posted videos of it's teams in action, there have been more than 115,000 views!

"Obviously, people are really getting into watching our women play tackle football. To get that many views and downloads is simply phenomenal," states Debby Lening, VP NWFA. In addition to videos that spotlight individual players and teams, there are full games on the site. The entire Gender Bowl game was recently added to the site and it's getting quite a few downloads and views.

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL FORMS
AA DIVISION

The NWFA has announced the formation of an AA Division. This new double A division has been set up to help new expansion teams prepare to join the major NWFA league.

"We have found over the past seven years that it's helpful for new teams to have at least a year or two of experience before they play against our well established and more seasoned teams. We also feel this will help these new teams learn how to build programs and campaigns that will generate more fans in the stands and sponsors," states league CEO, Catherine Masters.

The newly established expansion teams will be placed geographically so that their travel cost will be minimized. "We are accepting applications now for expansion teams in many areas of the country and will announce new owners and teams shortly," states Debby Lening league Vice President.

The expansion double A teams will have the opportunity to move up the major league once they meet certain criteria. This criteria will include attendance, financial solvency and athletic ability.

Teams will pay a nominal fee to become a double A team and those fees will be applied to the overall NWFA major license fee when the team has met the criteria to move up.

The NWFA has been considering this new division for several years but felt the right formula was not in place until now. "This new division opens up the doors for our league to attract many new teams and give a lot more women athletes the chance to play tackle football. It will also help prevent blowout games since the new teams will have a chance to gather the experience before stepping up to play in the big league," Masters adds.

PRESEASON SCRIMMAGES

Central PA Vipers
The Philadelphia Phoenix travel to the Central PA Vipers on March 25th at 1pm. The game will pleased at William Penn School at 6th and Division in Harrisburg.
For more info, please visit centralpavipers.com   

Cincinnati Sizzle                     
Coach Woods announces an exhibition game between the Cincinnati Sizzle and the Cleveland Fusion on April 7, 2007. For more info, please visit cincinnatisizzle.com

PHOENIX PROWLERS and ARIZONA VENOM SHOWCASE DURING AFL GAME

The Arizona Rattlers vs. the Las Vegas Gladiators on March 23rd.

The Phoenix Prowlers and the Arizona Venom will take part in an AFL game that will be in honor of women's sports. The Prowlers and the Venom will scrimmage two times prior to the AFL game kick off. Each scrimmage will last for 2 quarters. First kickoff is at 12:30.

The Prowlers and Venom will also be available for autographs in the Toyota room pre and post game as well as half-time during the game.

Ky. Karma At Home

March 31st vs. Nashville Dream 2:30pm.
April 7th vs. Alabama Renegades 3:00pm.
For more info, please visit KentuckyKarma.com

Orange County Breakers

Dallas Rage @ Orange County Breakers on March 31, 2007, at Capistrano Valley High School.
For more info, please visit ocbreakersfootball.com

The NWFA kicks off it's 7th season April 14 in 34 markets around the country.

The NWFA has been featured in more than 250 major publications and TV networks including the CBS Evening News, The NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The NBC Today Show, ESPN's Cold Pizza, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Access Hollywood, CNN, Inside Edition, SPIKE TV, Bet's MAAD Sports, The New York Times, The LA Times, Nickelodeon, the Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, OT Magazine, ESPN the Magazine and many, many local and regional networks and publications.